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Nationality of Author:
"Irish or Anglo-Irish"
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Politics of Author:
"From Whig to Tory"
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Literary Period:
"Early Modern"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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Gender of Author:
"Male"
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Author name:
"Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)"
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Religion of Author:
"Church of Ireland"
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Metaphor Category:
"Optics"
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Date: March 13, 1727
"Must these like empty shadows pass, / Or forms reflected from a glass? / Or mere chimeras in the mind, / That fly, and leave no marks behind?"
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Date: 1735
"He seemed therefore confident, that instead of Reason, we were only possessed of some Quality fitted to increase our natural Vices; as the Reflection from a troubled Stream returns the Image of an ill-shapen Body, not only larger, but more distorted."
preview | full record— Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)